Fr. Lawrence Farley
Rating: 6,2|Votes: 17
We should consider the faith and life of a group taken as a whole and not simply their stated understanding of baptism or their confession of the Trinity.
Rating: 10|Votes: 8
Twelve women from Philippine received Friday, August 31, 2018, the Mystery of Holy Baptism at the St Andrew and All Russian Saints in Episkopeio, Nicosia.
Rating: 6|Votes: 21
The question of how the Orthodox Church should receive converts from other Christian confessions is a large and complicated one, and is sometimes capable of drawing very warm responses—including from some of our Protestant and Roman Catholic brethren who may feel rejected and slighted by talk of conversion from their confessions to that of Orthodoxy.
Hieromonk Seraphim (Rose)
Rating: 9,5|Votes: 43
Of course, you read about this and you say the man must be crazy. But if you look deeply, you see that this is coming from a deep desire to have some kind of happiness on earth.
Rating: 9,7|Votes: 37
Christ tells the Pharisees and Sadducees who came to Him, “Ye can discern the face of the sky,” that is, tell what the weather will be; “but can ye not discern the signs of the times?” In other words, He’s telling them that this has nothing to do with science, or with knowing our place in the world, or anything of the sort.
Sergei Komarov
Rating: 10|Votes: 15
The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground, and should sleep by night and rise by day, and the seed should sprout and grow, he himself does not know how (Mark 4:26–27).
Tatiana Veselkina
Rating: 8,8|Votes: 32
The ROCOR parish of St. Joseph the Betrothed follows the form of worship called the Western Rite, as it was before the Great Schism of 1054 in the One, Catholic and Apostolic Church.
Nun Theophania
Rating: 9,9|Votes: 90
The convent’s distinctive feature is that its nuns are not only from Greece, but also natives of other countries—Austria, Australia, the UK, Armenia, Germany, Cyprus, Lebanon, Russia, the USA, Estonia, and Japan; and they hold some parts of the services in their native languages.
Schema-Archimandrite Gabriel Bunge, Vasily Tsuper
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 55
Monasticism does not exist for any specific purposes related to this world. To quote an anonymous author of The History of Egyptian Monks (fourth century), “From the very beginning, the purpose of monasticism was following Christ in the desert, singing hymns and psalms and waiting for our Lord to come.” This seeming “uselessness” makes monasticism free from any services within the Church structure.
Fr. Ted Bobosh
Rating: 9,3|Votes: 16
When one reads the spiritual lessons from the Fathers and Mothers of our Church, one realizes that they did not hold to a “one-size-fits-all” mentality when it came to spiritual discipline.
Vadim Grachev
Rating: 9,5|Votes: 74
According to them, now they have seen Holy Russia, which will remain in their hearts forever.
Ivan Kireyevsky
Rating: 8,9|Votes: 11
For Kireyevsky, the idea of the integrity of spiritual life was central to philosophy. It is precisely “integral thinking” that allows the individual and society to avoid the false choice between ignorance, which leads to “inclination of the mind and heart away from true convictions,” and logical thinking, which is capable of drawing a person away from all that is important in this world.
Bishop John (Rudenko), Valery Konovalov, Michael Ustyugov
Rating: 9,5|Votes: 21
The journey Bishop John made to his current role was not a simple one. Before Vorkuta he served in the Ivanovo Region for a long time, but was actually born in Novosibirsk, where he defended his dissertation in radiophysics, worked as a researcher, and taught. That is, before he suddenly changed his life.
Fr. Sergius Chetverikov
Rating: 9,1|Votes: 39
Before answering that question, I want to say a few words to those who assert that one should not “impose” religious beliefs on children.
Constantine Beliy, Eleonora Sablina
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 39
Therefore, despite the problems and difficulties, thank God, the spirit of a living Christian community has been largely preserved.
Aleksei Solonitsyn
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 16
Services at the Monastery of St. John the Baptist were closely tied to the Eastern Rite, and pilgrims from Russia suggested to Brother Basile more than once that he should become Orthodox. And he thought much about that.
Priest Igor Zyryanov
Rating: 9,7|Votes: 45
In 2009, the well-known Russian Protestant pastor Igor Zyryanov converted to Orthodoxy along with his entire community of neo-Pentecostals. We spoke with Fr. Igor about his discoveries in Orthodoxy, as well as about the best way to speak with Protestants about the true faith.
Fr. Joseph Gleason
Rating: 9,1|Votes: 63
Fr. Joseph Gleason, who had upped stakes from rural Illinois with his wife and eight children and moved to Russia. Here is Fr. Joseph’s explanation to him of why he and his family chose this non-standard path, and how it has turned out for them.
Priest Dimitry Torshin
Rating: 9,5|Votes: 39
What happens when people follow the will of God, no matter how strange or unexpected it may seem, and what ensues when they stubbornly insist on having their own way? Find the answer in these three stories of Fr. Dimitry Torshin, the priest of the Church of the Dormition in Ozerskoye (Podborki) Village near Kozelsk.
Alexei Kashkin
Rating: 8,5|Votes: 13
In this article, professor of the Saratov Orthodox Theological Seminary and author of the textbook The Typikon of Orthodox Worship Alexei Kashkin tells us about the Presanctified Liturgy.
